2010-2011 Annual Report 2010-2011 Electrical Engineering

Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science Electrical Engineering

Annual Report 2010-2011 Annual Report 2010-2011 Electrical Engineering

Table of Contents

Faculty Highlights 4 Alumni Board 16 Student Awards 17 Members of National Academies 18 Research Centers 20 Department Overview 22 Circuits and Embedded Systems Faculty 24 Physical and Wave Electronics Faculty 27 Signals and Systems Faculty 30 Books by Faculty 33 Post-Graduation Academic Placement 34 Administration 35 Industry Affiliates 35

2 Annual Report Introduction 2010-2011

NANO/GREEN/BIO-PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGIES, ADVANCED CIRCUIT/SYSTEM/NETWORK DESIGN METHODOLOGIES STATE-OF-THE-ART RESULTS

am pleased to report the activities of UCLA Electrical En- Distinguished Professor and Chairman Igineering for academic year 2010-2011. Our faculty have M.C. Frank Chang made strides in developing technology to improve the world we live in and the lives and health of humanity, including: contribution in high-speed CMOS communication circuits. ■ New tools for health and medicine: Professor Bahram Our alumnus Dr. Asad M. Madni (B.S. 1969, M.S. 1972) Jalali’s world’s fastest camera (STEAM — Serial Time En- was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering coded Amplified Microscopy) captures the motion of cells, (NAE), and was awarded the IEEE Instrumentation and allowing blood samples to be screened quickly and with ac- Measurement Society’s Career Excellence Award and the curacy. Professr Chi On Chui is developing active sensing Lifetime Contribution Award by UCLA HSSEAS. devices with gain (such as a nanowire-based FET sensor) for Recent graduates have accepted academic appointments, the detection and diagnosis of diseases. The UCLA Wireless from West Virginia University and SUNY Buffalo, to Cairo Health Initiative, led by Professor William Kaiser, seeks to University (Egypt), Yonsei University (South Korea) and improve the health and well-being particularly of those in at- National Chiao Tung University and National Tsing Hua risk populations. University (Taiwan). ■ Innovative technologies to meet increasing demands Our department is also set to welcome not only the of the green electronics: Profs. Lara Dolecek, Puneet Gupta largest freshmen class this Fall but also the largest graduate and Mani Srivastava seek to tackle the problem of overde- class as well — our reputation in research and education sign by intentionally underdesigning hardware and using grow stronger than ever. It has been 20 years since we took variability-aware software to mitigate the difference. Prof. on the name Electrical Engineering Department and we Kang Wang is developing spintronics memories to over- look forward to another 20 years of excellence. We proudly come constraints as electronic devices shrink through the recognize the accomplishments of our faculty and their DARPA STT-RAM program. Prof. Ken Yang proposes new research groups, and thank our alumni, friends and technology to extend the range of copper interconnects to customers in industry, government and academia for their meet limitations presented by current interconnect options. continuous support. ■ Alternate forms of energy: Professors Chan Joshi and Warren Mori are investigating laser fusion as a replacement for traditional energy (such as oil). The Clean Green IGERT Fellowship program, led by Prof. Diana Huffaker, is shap- ing scientists and engineers in the area of clean energy. Our quest for innovation has also pushed us to reach across disciplines. Professor Mihaela van der Schaar is leading the UCLA Center for Engineering Economics, Learn- ing, and Networks. With funding support by Raytheon, Professors Izhak Rubin and Kung Yao have established the UCLA Public Safety Network Systems Laboratory to bring together experts from academia, industry and public safety agencies. Technical societies have recognized achievements of our faculty and alumni. Professor Behzad Razavi was awarded the 2012 IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits for his

3 Annual Report 2010-2011 Faculty Highlights blood screening using the world’s fastest camera

etection and isolation of rare but low sensitivity due to the lack of Professor Bahram Jalali Devents among a large hetero- spatial resolution. Perhaps more im- geneous population of cells is portantly, the current flow imaging in the conventional methods, the proving to be important for early de- technology is not capable of real-time UCLA technology can perform real- tection of metastatic disease and for image processing even at the modest time detection of extremely rare cells monitoring the efficacy of therapy. throughput with which it operates — in a large sample of normal cells with Rare cells that have a significant im- almost 100x lower than necessary. high sensitivity, specificity, and sta- pact on medical diagnostics and ther- Professor Jalali and his group have tistical accuracy in a very short period apeutics include stem cell developed a high-throughput flow- of time. With the help of Prof. Dino transplantation, vaccine develop- through imaging system for real-time Di Carlo’s group at UCLA Biomedical ment, noninvasive prenatal diagnos- detection of rare cells. This technol- Engineering Department, the re- tics, angio genesis research, and ogy makes use of the group’s pho- search has shown real-time identifi- cancer diagnostics and therapy. Un- tonic time stretch technology to cation of rare breast cancer cells in fortunately, detection of such “rogue” create the world’s fastest camera. The blood with a record low false-positive cells with high statistical accuracy is camera is then integrated with a cy- rate of one cell in a million. Prelimi- difficult to perform due to the lack of tometer and real-time image process- nary results indicate that this new technology with simultaneous high ing to classify every cell in a blood technology has the potential to enable sensitivity and high throughput. sample. The new blood screening detection of rare circulating tumor While useful for visual inspection of technology boasts an unprecedented cells from a large volume of blood in single cells with high sensitivity, au- throughput of 100,000 cells per sec- a short time opening the way for sta- tomated microscopy is prohibitively ond, twice as fast as the current state- tistically accurate early detection of slow. On the other hand, flow cytom- of-the-art automated microscopes. cancer and monitoring efficacy of etry has high throughput detection, Overcoming the limitations that exist drug and radiation therapy.

Spherical Objective Lens Lens Microfluidic Device Cells

Optical Flow Circulator Real-time Image Amplified Time Stretch Processing

Photodiode

4 Annual Report Faculty Highlights 2010-2011 Semiconductor Active Biosensors and Biosensing

ery low-cost and field-appropri- sensors have demonstrated label-free Assistant Professor Chi On Chui Vate molecular-level detections electronic detection of biomolecular for disease diagnostics, for analytes with sub-pM limit of detection nanowire-based FET sensor that instance, are sorely needed in both the (LOD). Moreover, their direct electrical electrically amplifies the biomolecular civilian and military populations. The outputs significantly simplify the signals locally at the sensing source development and deployment of such subsequent signal processing and with minimally added noise. The point-of-care (PoC) in vitro diagnostic transmission versus the competing “amplification-at-the-source” idea is (IVD) platforms are however optical PoC solutions. These generic analogous to that of a low-noise particularly challenging, especially in nanowire FET sensors, nevertheless, amplifier (LNA) in modern radio resource- limited settings, due to have severe limitations such as receiver circuits. Experimentally, the requirements such as high sensitivity impractically low output signal levels novel sensor prototypes have demon- and specificity, rapid turnaround time, at LOD, insufficient sensitivity, charge strated 5-10 times sensitivity absence of equipped facilities and screening in high ionic strength improvement in detecting solution trained personnel, pH value and cancer low-cost of disposables protein biomarkers and fixed equipments, over the conven tional portability, etc. As a nanowire FET. In addi- key component inside tion, his laboratory is these platforms, the developing innovative biosensor is responsi- sensing procedures to ble for capturing the mitigate simultane- disease biomarker in- ously the screening formation and trans- Optical micrograph of a disposable Scaning electron micrograph of the and selectivity issues. lating that into either a electronic test strip prototype with novel nanowire-based FET sensor In collaboration with chemical or physical handling fluidics for field-appropriate in invented in Professor Chi On Chui’s cardiology clinicians at output signal. For vitro diagnostic (IVD) applications laboratory UCLA, his laboratory highly selective detec- is prototyping IVD tions or captures of these biomarkers, solutions, and non-manufacturability. platforms (Figure 2) for highly sensi- either antigen-antibody specific bind- Besides sensitivity, the detection tive, quantitative, and rapid diagnosis ings or complementary nucleic acid selectivity is often compromised by the of time-critical cardiovascular disease hybridizations are widely adopted in platform-independent non-specific such as acute myocardial infarction. common diagnostic platforms. The competitive binding events with Professor Chui has received several criteria on the signal transduction interferents and/or random sensor awards for his work. Most notably, he device technology include superior surface biofouling. is the first recipient of the IEEE sensitivity, multiplex and simple Leveraging the advanced semicon- Electron Device Society Early Career operations, response timeliness, ductor manufacturing technology, Award in 2009, which is regarded as compactness, reusability, simple Professor Chi On Chui’s laboratory is one of the Society’s highest honors. fabrication, and electronic interfaces. developing innovative semiconductor Very recently, he has also received the As a contending platform technology, biosensor structures and their Chinese American Faculty Associa- quasi-one-dimensional semiconductor fundamental sensing principles. His tion Robert T. Poe Faculty Develop- nanowire field-effect transistor (FET) laboratory has recently invented a ment Award.

5 Annual Report 2010-2011 Faculty Highlights wireless The SEM scanner developed at Health UCLA detects pressure ulcers in patients confined to bed Initiatives rest or wheelchairs

rofessor William Kaiser’s re- to exploit and de- Professor William Kaiser Psearch efforts have led to the de- liver value based on velopment of the first sensor this immensely valuable data resource. ment that provides the first evidence- networks with Professor Gregory Pot- Highlights include the development of based assessment of pressure ulcer tie during the mid-90s, to energy effi- the Wireless Health Sensor Fusion wounds. This will serve a large popula- cient computing systems, and now to a Toolkit (WHSFT) now used in nearly tion of patients in clinical treatment, to new field formed first at UCLA: Wire- all WHI programs including those to frail elder patients in residential and as- less Health. Wireless Health combines be described below. WHSFT employs sisted living and nursing home envi- the medical science and engineering new methods for signal processing fea- ronments who face the very important disciplines that include biomedical ture extraction, sensor fusion classifi- threat of pressure ulcers. These occur sensing, signal processing, advanced cation, and context detection to enable when subjects are confined to bedrest sensor information processing theory both high accuracy classification of or wheelchairs and other constraints. and algorithms, embedded computing subject state as well as low energy and The mortality rate from pressure ulcers technology, the smartphone, and in- bandwidth efficient system operation. is very high and accounts for over two formation technology. In collaboration The Stroke Inpatient Rehabilitation million Medicate treatment days each with Dr. Bruce Dobkin (UCLA Neu- Reinforcement of ACTivity (SIR- year. The SEM Scanner, based on a rology) and Majid Sarrafzadeh (UCLA RACT) trial has also started and enrolls novel probe of tissue dielectric proper- Computer Science and Electrical Engi- 200 patients in 15 countries. The pro- ties, was developed in less than 18 neering), Professor Kaiser serves as a gram has deployed inexpensive wear- months and is now deployed in trials Director of the UCLA Wireless Health able motion sensor devices developed and is being produced by a biomedical Institute (WHI). by the WHI team and employs the Sig- device manufacturing partner. Rapid advances this year at WHI are nal Search Engine trained machine- Professor Kaiser is also engaged in enabling the design of powerful clinic, learning algorithms that identify and education initiatives where Wireless home and mobile technologies that characterize subject behavior and pro- Health provides capstone design re- can assess disease, provide treatment vide direct subject guidance. search opportunities for undergradu- guidance, and promote health, well- Professor Kaiser’s group has also led ate and graduate courses. ness, and fitness. The Signal Search development of the UCLA Physiologi- These course projects have resulted Engine (SSE) research program has cal Health Assessment System for in two conference best paper awards. been developed to enable the combi- Emergency Responders (PHASER) Outreach includes the intensive sup- nation of search and analytics required Program funded by the Department of port of the new Wireless Health con- Homeland Security. ference series with the recent 2010 and This was created to ad- 2011 editions. Professor William dress a primary national Kaiser provided the keynote address at objective to develop a the announcement media event by breakthrough in assur- Ford Motor Company of its new Con- ing health and safety for nected Health initiative on May 18, the First Responder. 2011 in Dearborn, Michigan. This is Finally, Professors intended to provide Wireless Health Kaiser and Sarrafzadeh support in Ford vehicles with wireless have led development of sensing and also with driver and pas- a new clinical instru- senger guidance services.

6 Annual Report Faculty Highlights 2010-2011 Hardware- Variability- Aware Software

s the semiconductor geometries scale down for ex- Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Professor Mani Aponential growth in capacity and capabilities of in- Lara Dolecek Puneet Gupta B. Srivastava tegrated circuits, the underlying logic and memory http://www.algo.ee.ucla.edu http://nanocad.ee.ucla.edu http://nesl.ee.ucla.edu devices no longer behave like the precisely chiseled machines of the past. The variability in their behavior from Variability- Variability- Aware Aware Application Application Variability- device-to-device and over their lifetimes — due to manu- Aware facturing, aging-related wear-out and different operating en- Variability-Aware Operating System Computer Software vironments — is completely ignored by modern computer Opportunistic Variability signatures: systems. Through a recently awarded NSF Expedition in -cache bit map Computing project on Variability-Aware Software for Effi- -cpu speed-power map -memory access time cient Computing with Nanoscale Devices (http://www.vari- -ALU error rates Sensors & models ability.org), Professors Dolecek, Gupta, and Srivastava’s Variability manifestations: research groups are pursuing a new class of underdesigned -delay variation -power variation and opportunistic computing machines. In these machines, -error rate variation the spatiotemporal variations, instead of being hidden be- Variability: -20x in sleep power -50% in performance Underdesigned Hardware: hind conservative specifications of an ‘over-designed’ hard- -application driven functional or parametic ware, are exposed to the highest layers of software. An underdesign

Hardware -fluid HW/SW interface adaptable software stack then proactively conforms to the Underdesigned deliberately under-designed hardware with relaxed design and manufacturing constraints. works. The approach results in 22X improvement in The Expedition project is a five-year, $10M, multi-uni- average duty cycle, which directly translates to quality of sen- versity effort, jointly led by UCLA and UCSD, and also in- sor information, for ten measured commercial ARM Cortex volving researchers from Illinois, Michigan, Stanford, and M3 based systems. UC Irvine. The research will result in innovations in low- In parallel Prof. Dolecek’s students have proposed a family overhead mechanisms for online learning of hardware sig- of error correction schemes that exploit, rather than ignore, natures; compact representations of hardware variability; the asymmetries in hardware variability. While simple to im- application-intent driven underdesigned hardware design; plement, the resulting methods already outperform previ- variability-aware compilation; programming language sup- ously best known results in terms of information capacity, port for variability; and, coordinated variability- aware adap- and are particularly useful for emerging Flash memories. tation in the operating system and applications. The Expedition team has also undertaken an ambitious Early results are promising. For example, work in Prof. outreach effort to engage younger students for careers in Gupta’s group has shown that in a video encoding system computing and engineering. The team is mentoring high- the hardware performance variations can be completely ab- school students as part of a new year-around “Los Angeles sorbed by application adaptation with imperceptible loss in Computing Circle” (LACC) initiative. The inaugural ten- image quality. In many cases, in functionally underde- week Summer 2011 offering of LACC has engaged eight signing hardware which deterministically commits errors, students from local high-schools in an intense program the results is acceptable as well. A joint work by Professsors mentored by graduate and undergraduate students. It con- Srivastava and Gupta leverages power variability in embed- sists of short course modules on diverse computer engi- ded processors by adapting duty-cycle of the running neering topics with hands-on implementation experience, application by introducing an adaptable task abstraction in and research projects spanning social network algorithms, TinyOS, an OS commonly used in wireless sensor net- embedded systems, robotics, and computer architecture.

7 Annual Report 2010-2011 Faculty Highlights Spintronic memory technology and Green nano initiative

rofessor Kang Wang has been Professor Wang was also awarded Distinguished Professor Kang Wang Pleading two DARPA programs an additional $4 million Phase I award on nonvolatile spintronic mem- for research on a technology known as Metrology (WIN-GEM). The new build- ory and logic. The memory program non-volatile logic, which enables “in- ing will provide core research facilities, aims at developing spin-transfer- stant-on computation.” Today’s digital supporting research on low-power, non- torque magnetic random access mem- electronics rely on complementary volatile nanoelectronics; green manu- ory (STT-RAM), while a second metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) facturing of novel nanomaterial-based program aims to develop nonvolatile integrated circuits, which use an elec- energy technologies; and new materials magnonic logic. tron’s charge to store and transfer infor energy generation, storage and man- For his STT-RAM work, Kang formation. But as devices and chips agement. The Western Institute of Wang’s team was awarded a $3 million have become smaller and more com- Nanoelectronics, led by Professor Kang Phase II award. The grant from the De- pact, the fundamental limits of CMOS Wang, is one of the centers of excellence fense Advanced Research Projects are being approached. The emerging to be housed in WIN-GEM. It is a Agency (DARPA) funds research on a field of spintronics exploits another as- consortium of major semiconductor potential universal memory. The pect of electrons — their spin — to companies addressing the needs of elec- agency had previously awarded UCLA transfer information, taking advantage tronics beyond today’s mainstream Engineering $5 million for the first of ferromagnetic materials. Devices CMOS technology. phase of this research program. STT- using magnetic materials can be non- The Western Institute of Electronics RAM can achieve a density comparable volatile, maintaining their state even and the Center on Functional Engi- to dynamic random access memory when power is removed, and consume neered Nano Architectonics (FENA) — (DRAM), and it equals — and has even much less power when switched on. another center of excellence led by Kang exceeded — the high speed of static In addition, National Institute of Stan- Wang, which explores low-cost, high- random access memory (SRAM), dards and Technology awarded UCLA’s yield, energy-efficient nanoscale manu- which is often used for caches in com- Henry Samueli School of Engineering facturing technologies for semiconduc- puter microprocessors. And like the and Applied Science $6 million to tor devices — have more than 80 flash memory common in USB drives support the construction of the new principal investigators in the U.S. in and memory cards, STT-RAM retains state-of-the-art Western Institute of Nan- addition to those at UCLA. FENA will its memory without any power while otechnology on Green Engineering and also be located in WIN-GEM. being orders of magnitude faster and more energy efficient. STT-RAM could ME cell combine these three advantages into a single scalable memory technology Input 1 with excellent endurance and very low power requirements. Input 2 Output 1

Input 3 UCLA’s nonvolatile logic concept uses waves Output 2 of magnetization, referred to as spin waves Input 4 Output 3 or magnons, to perform logic operations, while magnetic memory bits are used to add Output 4 nonvolatility to the circuit Silicon platform Spin wave bus 8 Annual Report Faculty Highlights 2010-2011 Green Interconnects for Intra Data-ceNTER COMMUNICATION

s data centers are expected to The research conducted with gradu- Professor Chih-Kong Ken Yang Amanage the increasing de- ate student researcher, Tamer Abdel- mands in bandwidth, process- rahim, proposes a link that leverages mulated from the previous repeater, al- ing power and storage requirements, synchronous clock forwarding on one lowing for data transmission with as connectivity issues between blades/ available data channel that improves much jitter as in the strobing clock. racks present a whole new set of chal- jitter tracking, while greatly simplify- Determining a fine balance in for- lenges in maintaining a stable infra- ing the design of the receiver and tim- ward clock frequency is crucial in structure. While data centers may ing recovery circuits. Only a phase defining jitter performance of the grow to occupy thousands of square de-skewing is required at the receive cable link. Frequency beyond the cable feet, current passive copper intercon- side to retrieve the clock-data relation- bandwidth results in large attenuation nects pose a real limitation with a run ship. In the cable link architecture, the of clock amplitude creating more noise and jitter accumulation along clock repeater. On the other hand, frequency well below the cable bandwidth will increase jitter accumulation time and will degrade jitter performance inside the clock multiplier. The trade-off between low frequency clock jitter accumulation in the Clock Mul- tiplication Unit (CMU) and the high frequency jitter accumulation along the clock repeaters is one of the defining aspects of optimizing the active copper link. To further reduce the clock jitter accumulation across repeaters, phase in- Networking physical limitations is the focus of Professor Yang’s laboratory. Signal repeaters terpolation between the input clock can extend the curent copper links in data centers to over the 100 meter limitation and the divided output of the CMU is used to generate the forward clock for length of 10 meters at 10Gbps per wire 12 Gbps data is repeated in 8 meter the next repeater stage. The addition pair. Optical fiber can extend the inter- sections with clocking forwarding on a of the phase interpolator has negligi- connection length from 10 meters to dedicated channel. Then the for- ble power/area cost, dramatically re- 100 meters, but the large power re- warded clock is dropped off every data duces jitter accumulation, and adds quirements and expensive opto-electric repeating stage in order to be multi- another degree of flexibility in choos- modules prove to be too uneconomi- plied to half the data rate and be used ing the forwarded clock to reduce the cal for practical application. As a com- to strobe the incoming data. The total accumulated jitter. With the promise, through the use of the longer the quality of clock forwarding proper choice of forward clock fre- Infiniband standard, a 12Gbps cable is maintained, the cleaner the data quency, application of the FIR filtering link can be achieved that would extend strobed at each repeater and the longer technique and a high performance the range of copper interconnects be- the cable can be extended. At each re- CMU, a total run length of 115 meters yond the 100 meter threshold. peater, the clock resets the jitter accu- is achieved.

9 Annual Report 2010-2011 Faculty Highlights Laser Fusion: An Inexhaustible Energy Source For the Future

he continued prosperity of interaction experiments and theory to Professor Chandrashekar Joshi Tmankind depends on access to explain the processes by which the Professor Warren Mori energy at a reasonable price. As laser light is absorbed and scattered by oil and other fossil fuels either run out the plasma. This showed that when the plasma. The presence of an ion or their continued use poses unaccept- high intensity laser pulses enter the wave characteristic of Brillouin scatter- able environmental risks, mankind plasma, non-linear processes called ing for instance can dampen the elec- must resort to an alternate source of stimulated Brillouin and Raman insta- tron plasma wave generated by Raman energy that is clean, abundant and able bilities scatter light out of the plasma. scattering. Other experiments showed to supply the bulk of the world’s energy This can significantly reduce the that when two laser beams cross one needs. With this goal in mind, re- amount of laser light that is absorbed. another in plasma, energy can be trans- searchers have been working on repli- Their work also showed that Raman ferred from between the beams. All cating nuclear fusion that occurs in the scattering accelerates very high-energy these findings have relevance to the na- Sun — a process called laser fusion. electrons. If these electrons penetrate tional laser fusion program. In laser fusion, a few mm diameter the laser-fusion capsule, they can pre- Professor Mori’s research group has sphere containing deuterium (D) and heat the DT fuel thereby preventing ef- been studying Stimulated Raman tritium (T), two isotopes of hydrogen, ficient compression of the fuel that is Scattering and the two-plasmon decay is imploded by vaporizing its outer sur- needed to trigger fusion reactions. processes, and how small changes to face using either intense laser beams UCLA experiments showed how the electron distribution function can or laser-generated x-rays. The fuel den- Brillouin scattering could be controlled dramatically change the laser-plasma sity and temperature rise while its to manageable levels by using plasmas interactions including the reflectivity. radius shrinks during the implosion that contained a small concentration of They are also studying how large am- process until collisions between D and lighter ions. The space-charge density plitude plasma wave packets excited by T ions leads to fusion and energy is waves generated by Brillouin and either Stimulated Raman Scattering released. After nearly four decades of Raman scattering interact with one and/or two plasma decay can modify work, researchers at the National another and with electrons and ions in the reflectivity and also lead to very Ignition Facility at Lawrence Liver- energetic electrons. more Laboratory in California are on Currently, Professor Chan Joshi’s the threshold of demonstrating a net group has the world’s most powerful energy gain from a laser fusion pellet. CO2 laser system in the world. Pro- In order for laser fusion to work, the fessor Mori’s group has its own pow- laser energy must go where it is aimed. erful computer cluster (called It cannot be reflected, bent, or Dawson2) that is the 148th fastest com- absorbed by laser-plasma instabilities puter in the world. His group also has before reaching its target. Professors its own computer code, OSIRIS, that Joshi and Mori have been working on is ideal for studying laser-plasma understanding the fundamental processes. UCLA is one of only a science behind laser-plasma interac- handful of universities offering grad- tions for 30 years. uate student training in this area. Our From the early days of laser fusion, Neptune Lab. World’s most powerful CO2 faculties serve on important commit- Professor Joshi’s research group has laser is used for non-linear effects present tees that review the national program carried out fundamental laser-plasma in laser fusion plasmas in energy research.

10 Annual Report Faculty Highlights 2010-2011 Integrated Nanomaterials Laboratory

n general, semiconductor nan- This is very powerful for realizing real Professor Diana Huffaker Iotechnology strives to develop devices from nanowires, especially. new approaches to atomic The nanomaterials, quantum dots reactive than larger particles, which arrangement to enable enhanced and nanowires, produce a lot of excite- opens up new areas of study merging absorption and emission of light along ment worldwide due to several chemistry, physics, and biology. Since with efficient current conduction. The intriguing properties. The associated joining UCLA, Huffaker has become fundamental technology of the Inte- quantized density of states enable increasingly interested in the interac- grated Nanomaterials Laboratory highly efficient light absorption for tion between organic and inorganic (INML) at CNSI is based on directed photovoltaics, effective electron-hole matter for new materials discovery and assembly of crystallographic semicon- pair storage and release for optical revolutionary device development. ductor materials atom-by-atom to form memory along with potentially impor- This approach results in highly inter quantum nanostructures such as tant solutions for silicon integration. disci pli nary research efforts fostered quantum dots and nanopillars. The Nanostructured materials have a much by a strong collaborative network — synthesis methods are based in mo- larger surface-to-volume ratio com- within UCLA and around the globe — lecular beam epitaxy and metalorganic pared to bulk, so they interact with to solve fundamental problems in chemical vapor epitaxy specializing in electricity and light in a very different communication, energy and health. compound III-V materials including way. Furthermore, they are more Along with CNSI, Huffaker’s III-As, Sb and N. Directed by Profes- strongest UCLA collaborative network sor Diana Huffaker, the INML is the Clean Green IGERT (CGI) Fel- research group has developed several lowship program sponsored by the unique approaches to realize materials National Science Foundation and the with very specific characteristics in American Recovery and Reinvest- emission wavelength, absorption spec- ment Act. The CGI trains Ph.D. sci- trum, carrier dynamics. This material entists and engineers for leadership combination offers access to the full roles in the clean energy sector. Tech- spectrum ranging from ultraviolet to nical thrusts include energy harvest- infrared. In particular, Huffaker and ing, storage, conservation solutions her group have patented several tech- and energy policy comprising faculty niques to specify and control nanowire across Engineering, Chemistry and placement and dimension using a lith- Institute of the Environment. Com- ographically predetermined pattern. munity participation is a CGI corner- stone with emphasis on volunteer work throughout Los Angeles and high school outreach, including an “energy science roadshow.” CGI has fostered many fruitful cross-campus research programs through fellowship support and seed-funds along Semi-conductor materials are built, atom-by- with new clean energy coursework atom: Patented nanowire placement control cross-listed in Engineering and and nanopillars at INML. College of Arts and Letters.

11 Annual Report 2010-2011 New Research Center Center for Engineering Economics, LEARNING, & Networks

he UCLA Center for Engineering Professor Mihaela van der Schaar TEconomics, Learning, and Networks is developing a new wave of ideas, quium; details to be announced. Other technologies, networks, and systems that planned activities include a day of tutorials change the ways in which people (and de- by affiliated faculty and a biweekly seminar vices) interact, communicate, collaborate, series featuring talks by both internal and learn, teach, and discover. The Center external researchers. brings together an interdisciplinary group UCLA Center for Engineering Econom- of researchers from diverse disciplines — ics, Learning, and Networks is composed of including computer science, electrical engi- people from UCLA Department of Electri- neering, economics, and mathematics — cal Engineering, Computer Science and with diverse interests spanning microeco- Economics. Current members are: Prof. nomics, machine learning, multi-agent sys- Simon Board (Economics), Prof. Adnan tems, artificial intelligence, optimization, Darwiche (Computer Science), Prof. Moritz and physical and social networks, all shar- Meyer-ter-Vehn (Economics), Prof. Ali H. ing a common passion: developing rigorous Sayed (Electrical Engineering), Prof. Paulo theoretical foundations to shape the design Tabuada (Electrical Engineering),Prof. Jenn of future generations of networks and sys- Wortman (Computer Science) and Prof. tems for interaction. William Zame (Economics). Prof. Mihaela Formal activities of the Center will begin van der Schaar from Electrical Engineering in Fall 2011 with a one-day inaugural collo- is the Center’s Director.

Center for Engineering Economics, Learning, & Networks

12 Annual Report New Research Center 2010-2011 UCLA Public Safety Network Systems Laboratory

n February 2011, Raytheon Com- Distinguished Professor Kung Yao Ipany gave a seed funding of $1 mil- Distinguished Professor Izhak Rubin lion for three years to UCLA for its partnership to create a new Public Safety Network Systems Laboratory (PSNSL). neering and Applied Science (HSSEAS). The mission of this Laboratory is to This Laboratory is affiliated with the In- bring together academia, industry, and stitute for Technology Advancement public safety agencies to provide techni- (ITA) at UCLA. cal leadership to perform collaborative Six broad areas of PSNSL efforts research and to establish standards for include: Area 1. Develop a CONOPS for public safety networks based on the 4G Public Safety Network and Operations LTE — Advanced standards. Technologies; Area 2. Develop Reference The co- directors of the Laboratory are Model for Public Safety; Area 3. Develop Distinguished Professor Kung Yao and Technologies Including LTE – Advanced; Distinguished Professor Izhak Rubin of Area 4. Develop Device Technologies; the Electrical Engineering Department Area 5. Perform Interoperability Studies; in the Henry Samueli School of Engi- Area 6. Perform Interoperability Testing.

Professors Yao and Rubin, co-chairmen, in front of the new research center Public Safety Network Systems Laboratory, funded by Raytheon

13 Annual Report 2010-2011 Awards Razavi receives the IEEE Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits

rofessor Behzad Razavi is the example, “synthesizer-friendly” trans- Professor Behzad Razavi Precipient of the 2012 IEEE ceivers. Such architectures have sub- Donald Pederson Award in stantially simplified the design of their research has recently led to techniques Solid-State Circuits, the highest award constituent oscillators and frequency that afford 300-GHz fundamental accorded to an individual in the field dividers, leading to 60-GHz receivers oscillation in 65-nm CMOS. of integrated circuits. and transmitters that consume the Prof. Razavi is also known for his An award-winning scholar, author, lowest reported power levels. lucid teaching and writing style. His and teacher, Prof. Razavi has, for two Prof. Razavi has also made seminal exemplary teaching has excited and decades, continued to push the speed contributions to wireline systems, inspired thousands of students, and of communication transceivers in specifically, in the area of high-speed his books — translated to Chinese, standard CMOS technology. The new phase-locked systems and broadband Japanese, Korean, and Portuguese — architectures, circuits, and devices circuits. A unique aspect of Prof. have been read and loved by more developed in the course of his research Razavi’s work has been the ability to than one hundred thousand students have paved the way for many of today’s leverage concepts from the RF design and engineers. integrated wireless and wireline sys- world to wireline circuits. Utilizing new Prof. Razavi has received numer- tems. Professor Razavi is also known techniques, he and his students were ous awards for his research, for his theoretical and modeling stud- the first to demonstrate 10-Gb/s and authorship, and teaching. He has ies, which have explored and eluci- 40-Gb/s clock and data recovery (CDR) served as an IEEE Distinguished dated the underlying principles of circuits, laser drivers, and equalizers in Lecturer and was selected as one of many devices and circuits. CMOS technology, creating the impe- the top ten authors in the 50-year Prof. Razavi’s work in the area of tus for the design of wireline trans- history of the International Solid- wireless transceivers has pioneered the ceivers in CMOS. Prof. Razavi’s State Circuits Conference. concept that innovations at the architecture level can greatly relax the design at the circuit level. He and his students have explored new architectures for RF applications from 900 MHz to 60 GHz, introducing, for

A 300-GHz fundamental oscillator developed by Prof. Razavi along with its measured spectrum

14 Annual Report Awards 2010-2011 NAE Membership and IEEE Career Excellence Award

r. Asad M. Madni (1969, M.S. Distinguished Professor Asad Madni D1972), Chair of the EE Alumni Ad- visory Board and President of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engi- UCLA Engineering Alumni Association neering and Applied Science. “This highly was elected to the U.S. National Academy of selective and prestigious award honors an Engineering (NAE) “for contributions to alumnus or friend of the School who has development and commercialization of sen- made outstanding and extraordinary sors and systems for aerospace and auto- contributions to the field of Engineering motive safety.” Election to the NAE is the and the School over the course of his or highest professional distinction that can be her lifetime.” accorded an engineer. The NAE is a private, Additionally, Dr. Madni is the recipient of independent, nonprofit institution that IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement provides engineering leadership in service Society’s highest honor, the 2010 Career to the nation. Its mission is to promote the Excellence Award “for an extraordinary technological welfare of the nation by mar- career of enlightened leadership in and shaling the expertise and insights of its pioneering contributions to the develop- members in the engineering profession. ment and commercialization of intelligent Members are elected to the academy by their sensors, systems and instrumentation.” peers for having distinguished themselves in research, technical positions and leadership in industry, government and academia. Dr. Madni was also awarded the 2010 “Lifetime Contribution Award” by the

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Alumni Board The mission of the Alumni Advisory Board is to provide critical and supportive advice to the UCLA Electrical Engineering Department in enhancing its leadership role in education and research.

Sharon Black Bill Goodin Special Projects Director, Program Director Short Course & Technical Raytheon Management Programs UCLA Extension

Leonard Bonilla Bob Green Retired Attorney Raytheon Christie, Parker, and Hale, LLP

David Doami Sharon V. Hong Director, Program Manager Systems Integration Northrop Grumman Specialist Motorola

Vicky Gih Gigi Lau Design Engineer & Engineer Alumni Product Lead Northrop Grumman

Dan Goebel Asad Madni Senior Research Scientist EE AAB Chair Jet Propulsion Laboratory President and CEO (Retired) BEI Technologies, Inc,

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Student Awards 2010 These awards were given to students for their academic excellence and contributions to the department and school.

Christina Huang Memorial Prize Raymond Liou

The Russell R. O'Neill Distinguished Service Award Recipient Raymond Liou

Outstanding Senior Award Raja A. Gangopadhya

Engineering Achievement Award for Student Welfare Recipients 2010-2011 Excellence in Teaching Award Chia Heng Chang, B.S., Spring 2011 Thomas Courtade Tran Dam, B.S., Winter 2011 Pei-Chi Jiang Melissa Sue Erickson, B.S., Fall 2011 Seyed Arash Mirhaj Susan Huon, B.S., Fall 2011 Zicong Zhou Raymond Liou, B.S., Winter 2011 (above) with Chairman Frank Chang (left)

Outstanding Master of Science Award Distinguished PhD Dissertation in Circuits & Outstanding Doctor of Philosophy Award Dustin Torres Embedded Systems Harish Rajagopalan Advisor: Prof. Mani Srivastava Chia-Hsiang Yang Advisor: Prof. Yahya Rahmat-Samii (left) Advisor: Prof. Dejan Markovic (left) Distinguished MS Research in Circuits & Distinguished PhD Dissertation in Physical Embedded Systems & Wave Electronics Dustin Torres Harish Rajagopalan with Chairman Frank Chang (right)

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Members of National Academies

Asad A. Abidi natural and urban environments. She created and directs the National Academy of Engineering Center for Embedded Networked Sensing, a National Sci- In 2007, Professor Asad A. Abidi was in- ence Foundation research center, which brings together ducted into the National Academy of En- dozens of researchers from multiple universities and serves gineering for his contributions to the as a model for other federally funded centers. Professor Es- development of MOS integrated circuits trin was selected as the first Athena Lecturer of the Associa- for RF Communications. Prior to joining UCLA in 1985, Pro- tion for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Committee on fessor Abidi worked at Bell Laboratories, as a member of the Women in Computing and was honored with the Women of technical staff in the Advanced LSI Development Laboratory. Vision Award for Innovation from the Anita Borg Institute He received a number of awards and honors throughout his for Women and Technology. She is a fellow of the American career, including the 1988 TRW (now Northrop Grumman) Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for Award for Innovative Teaching, the 1997 IEEE Donald G. the Advancement of Science, the ACM and the IEEE. Fink Award, presented for the most outstanding survey, review, or tutorial paper published by the IEEE, and the 2008 IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in solid state circuits. Tatsuo Itoh National Academy of Engineering Professor Itoh pioneered the interdiscipli- M. C. Frank Chang nary electromagnetics research beyond tra- National Academy of Engineering ditional electromagnetic engineering. He Professor Mau-Chung Frank Chang was was elected to the National Academy of En- elected to the National Academy of Engi- gineering in 2003, “for seminal contributions in advancing neering in 2008 for his contributions in electromagnetic engineering for microwave and wireless development and commercialization of components, circuits, and systems”. He developed several III-V-based heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) and numerical methods to understand microwave problems, and field-effective transistors (FETs) for RF wireless communi- developed the first CAD program package for designing E- cations. Prior to joining UCLA, Professor Chang was the As- plane filters for millimeter wave systems. His research fo- sistant Director at Rockwell Science Center where he cuses in combining solid state devices and electromagnetic successfully developed and transferred AlGaAs/GaAs Het- circuits for cost-effectiveness and system performance, de- erojunction Bipolar Transistor (HBT) and BiFET (Planar veloping the first global simulator for the RF frontend, deal- HBT/MESFET) integrated circuits technologies from the re- ing simultaneously with antennas, passive and active search laboratory to the production line. His research fo- microwave circuits. He also created the Active Integrated An- cuses on the development of high-speed semiconductor tenna scheme in which the antenna is not only a radiating devices, integrated circuits for RF and mixed-signal com- element, but also a circuit element for the RF front end. munication, and interconnect system applications. Professor Chang received the IEEE David Sarnoff Award (IEEE-wide Technical Field Award) in 2006 and the Pan Wen-Yuan Kuo-Nan Liou Foundation Award in 2008. National Academy of Engineering Professor Kuo-Nan Liou is director of the Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Deborah Estrin Science and Engineering (JIFRESSE). Pro- National Academy of Engineering fessor Liou pioneered the use of combina- Professor Deborah Estrin holds the tions of remote sensors to obtain important cloud ice and Jonathan B. Postel Chair in Computer Net- aerosol parameters and climate radiative forcing. He derived working. Elected to the National Academy the analytic four-stream solution for radiative transfer and of Engineering in 2009, Professor Estrin discovered the depolarization principle to differentiate ice led the development and deployment of wireless sensing sys- crystals and water droplets. Professor Liou was elected a tems that provide real-time, multifaceted information about Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1999

18 Annual Report 2010-2011 and was a past Chair of its Special Fields and Interdisciplinary phones, planetary spacecraft, earth-observation satellites, Engineering Section (2008-2010). Elected a Member of the and satellite dishes. Prior to joining UCLA, he was a Senior Academia Sinica (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiwan) in Research Scientist at Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His honors 2004, Professor Liou is also a Fellow of the American Asso- include the 2007 Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator ciation of the Advancement of Science, AGU, AMS and OSA. Award from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society; He received the Jule Charney Award from AMS and a cre- the 2005 International Union of Radio Science’s Booker ativity award from NSF, and shared the Nobel Peace Prize Gold Medal; the 2000 Antenna Measurement Techniques bestowed on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Association’s Distinguished Achievement Award; the IEEE’s Change (IPCC) in 2007. Professor Liou was the recipient of Third Millennium Medal; a Distinguished Alumni Award the 2010 COSPAR William Nordberg Medal. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He holds the Northrop Grumman Chair in Electromagnetics.

Stanley Osher National Academy of Sciences Henry Samueli Professor Stanley Osher was elected to the National Academy of Engineering National Academy of Sciences for “major Dr. Henry Samueli was elected to the Na- contributions to algorithm development tional Academy of Engineering in recog- and applications in level set methods, nition of his “pioneering contributions to high-resolution shock capturing methods, and PDE-based academic research and technology entre- methods in imaging science.” He has been at UCLA since preneurship in the broadband communications system-on- 1976 and is Director of Special Projects at the Institute for a-chip industry”. Dr. Samueli has over 25 years of Pure and Applied Mathematics. Dr. Osher was a Fulbright experience in the fields of digital signal processing and com- and Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, and received the NASA Public munications systems engineering and is widely recognized Service Group Achievement Award, the Japan Society of as one of the world’s leading experts in the field. He re- Mechanical Engineers Computational Mechanics Award, ceived his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engi- the SIAM Pioneer Prize, and the SIAM Kleinman Prize. neering from UCLA. Since 1985, Dr. Samueli is a professor in the Electrical Engineering Department. He is also well known as the co-founder of Broadcom Corporation. In C. Kumar Patel 2010, Professor Samueli received the UCLA Medal. National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering Professor Patel made numerous seminal Jason Speyer contributions in gas lasers, nonlinear National Academy of Engineering optics, molecular spectroscopy, pollution Professor Speyer was elected to the Na- detection and laser surgery. He received numerous honors, tional Academy of Engineering for “the including the National Medal of Science for his invention of development and application of advanced the carbon dioxide laser. He also received the Lomb Medal of techniques for optimal navigation and the Optical Society of America, the Franklin Institute’s control of a wide range of aerospace vehicles.” He pioneered Ballantine Medal, the Pake Prize of the American Physical new deterministic and stochastic control, team and differ- Society, and the Coblentz Society’s Coblentz Prize. ential game strategies, estimation, and model-based fault detection, identification, and reconstruction theories and algorithms, as well as matrix calculus of variations for the Yahya Rahmat-Samii Apollo autonomous navigation system. He pioneered the de- National Academy of Engineering velopment and mechanization of periodic optimal control Distinguished Professor Yahya Rahmat- for aircraft fuel-optimal cruise and endurance. His efforts in Samii was elected to the National Acad- differential carrier phase GPS blended with an inertial nav- emy of Engineering in 2008 for his igation system was applied to flight drag reduction, and pioneering contributions to the design achieved centimeter accuracy in flight tests. Dr. Speyer is a and measurement of reflector and hand-held device anten- fellow of AIAA and IEEE (Life Fellow) and received the IEEE nas. Many of his design concepts are currently used in cell Third Millennium Medal as well as several AIAA Awards.

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Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS)

CENS is a major research enterprise throughout the physical world. By in- focused on developing wireless sensing vestigating fundamental properties of systems and applying this revolution- embedded networked sensing systems, ary technology to critical scientific and developing new technologies, and ex- societal pursuits. In the same way that ploring novel scientific and educational the development of the Internet trans- applications, CENS is a world leader in formed our ability to communicate, the unleashing the tremendous potential ever decreasing size and cost of com- these systems hold. The center is a puting components is setting the stage multidisciplinary collaboration among for detection, processing, and commu- faculty, staff, and students. CENS was nication technology to be embedded established in 2002 as a National Sci- ence Foundation Science and Technol- California ogy Center and is a partnership of NanoSystems UCLA, UC Riverside, UC Merced, USC, and Caltech. Electrical Engineer- Institute (CNSI) ing Professors Deborah Estrin, Mark Hansen, Jack W. Judy, William J. The California NanoSystems Institute Kaiser, Gregory J. Pottie, Mani B. Sri- is an integrated research facility located vastava, John D. Villasenor, and Kung at UCLA and UC Santa Barbara. Its Yao are active members of the Center. mission is to foster interdisciplinary col- http://www.cens.ucla.edu laborations in nanoscience and nanotechnology; train a new generation Expedition into Hardware- of scientists, educators and technology leaders; generate partnerships with in- Variability-Aware Software dustry; and contribute to the economic development and the social well-being test costs for computing systems while of California, the United States and the enhancing their performance and world. The CNSI was established in The National Science Foundation energy efficiency. The expedition’s 2000 with $100 million from the state awarded $10 million to the research deputy director, Mani Srivastava, joins of California. An additional $850 mil- initiative “Hardware-Variability-Aware Lara Dolecek and Puneet Gupta from lion of support has come from federal Software for Efficient Computing with UCLA in a team of eleven researchers research grants and industry funding. Nanoscale Devices.” The grant is part from various universities. CNSI members are drawn from the of the funding agency’s Expeditions in Please see page 11 for more information. departments of biology, chemistry, bio- Computing program, which rewards http://www.variability.org chemistry, physics, mathematics, com- far-reaching agendas that “promise putational science and engineering. significant advances in the computing This dynamic research setting has frontier and great benefit to society.” enhanced understanding of phenom- Variability-aware computing systems ena at the nanoscale and promises to would benefit the entire spectrum of produce important discoveries in embedded, mobile, desktop and health, energy, and the environment server-class applications by dramati- and information technology. cally reducing hardware design and http://www.cnsi.ucla.edu

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FCRP Center on Functional Engineered Nano Architectonics

FENA is part of the Focus Center Re- nano-engineered functional materials search Program (FCRP) initiated by and devices, and novel structural and Center for the Semiconductor Research Corpora- computational architectures for new tion in an effort to expand pre-compet- information processing systems be- Excellence in itive, cooperative, long-range applied yond the limits of conventional CMOS microelectronics research at US uni- technology. FENA plays a key role in Green versities. The center, which was estab- America’s technology competitiveness Nanotechnology lished in 2003, so far has received as it addresses industry and DoD $38M, and is expected to receive an ad- needs using the research university King Abdulaziz City for Science & ditional $15M through 2012. FENA system, i.e. long-range, innovative ap- Technology (KACST) in Saudi Arabia aims to create and investigate new plied research. and the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, have are working together under a Western Institute of established Center of Excellence in Green Nanotechnology to promote ed- Nanoelectronics (WIN) ucational, technology transfer and research exchanges, as well as an agreement with UCLA for research in nanoelectronics and clean energy for the next 10 years. From the UCLA side, the center is directed by Profes- sor Kang L. Wang. KACST is both Saudi Arabia’s national science agency and is the nation’s premier national laboratory. At the signing cere- mony, KACST was represented by Prince Turki, the organization’s vice- president for research institutes. The initial kick-off phase of $3.2 million The Western Institute of Nanoelectron- tablished with funding totaling over will fund the center over three years in ics is a multidisciplinary center that is $20 million in addition to spinning the the following research areas: the world’s largest spintronic research STTRAM and NV Logic DARPA pro- ■ Nanostructures for high efficiency effort. WIN was established in 2006 grams at UCLA totaling over about solar cells and is headquartered at UCLA, led by $16M. Furthermore, through these re- ■ Patterned nanostructures for Electrical Engineering Professor Kang search efforts NIST awarded UCLA integratedactive optoelectronics on Wang. The institute involves collabora- $6M to build the WIN-GEM building silicon tions among various Californian Uni- as part of the Engineering Building 1 re- ■ Carbon nanotube circuits versities which includes Stanford, placement. WIN industry partners and Berkeley and UCLA. The institute’s consortia are organized through the Na- Please See Also: Wireless Health Institute...... page 8 mission is to explore and develop ad- noelectronics Research Initiative which Center for Engineering Economics, vanced research devices, circuits and includes semiconductor companies Learning & Networks...... page 12 nanosystems with performance beyond such as Intel, IBM, Texas Instruments, Public Safety Network Systems CMOS devices. The Institute was es- NIST, Globalfoundries and Micron. Laboratory...... page 13

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The Electrical Engineering Department Overview

Faculty and Staff Recognitions

Society Fellows 33 NAE Members 8 Ladder Faculty 45 FTEs NAS Members 2 Courtesy Appointments 14 National Medal of Science 1 Emeriti Faculty 13 Adjunct 6 Lecturers 13 Staff 42 Research Facilities

Laboratories and Research Groups: 37 Space: 100,772 square feet

Research Centers

The Electrical Engineering Department contributes to the following Research Centers:

California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) Institute for Cell Mimetic Space Exploration (CMISE) Center for Embedded Networking Sensing (CENS) Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE) Center for Engineering Economics, Learning & Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) Networks Institute for Technology Advancement (ITA) Center for Excellence in Green Nanotechnology Nanoelectronics Research Center (NRC) Center for High Frequency Electronics (CHFE) Public Safety Network System (PSNS) Center for Systems, Dynamics and Controls (SyDyC) Water Technology Research Center (WaTer) Expedition into Hardware Variability-Aware Software Western Institute of Nanotechnology (WIN) Functional Engineered Nano Architectonics Focus Wireless Health Institute Center (FENA)

Research Funding Industry: 8 million for 2010-2011: University & 31% Endowments: 1.9 million 7% 1% State: 0.2 million $ 26.2M Federal: 16 million

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Undergraduate Students Graduate Students

Students Enrolled 732 Students Enrolled 404 Applicants 1036 Applicants 1250 Admitted 439 Admitted 411 New Students Enrolled 150 New Students Enrolled 147 Average Freshman GPA 3.83 Average Incoming GPA 3.71

Graduate Applicants for Fall 2010 Graduate Students Admitted Total 1250 Circuits and Embedded Systems

Republic of South Admitted Applicants: 181 China: 111 Korea: 59 (Applicants Other Accepted: 104) countries: Iran: 45 29% 165 9% 13% 5% 3% 71% Physical and Rejected 16% Applicants: 454 Wave Electronics Fellowship Nomination and GSR Offers: 14 Admitted Applicants: 90 India: 34% (Applicants 198 20% Accepted: 41) 23% 77% Signals and Systems Rejected United People's Republic Applicants: 300 States: 252 of China: 420 Admitted Applicants: 140 (Applicants Fellowship Nomination and GSR Offers: 17 Accepted: 55) Graduate Students Fellowships 21% 79%

Department Fellowships $547,646 Rejected Applicants: 526 Non-Resident Tuition Support Fellowship Nomination and GSR Offers: 19 for Teaching Assistants $195,920 Dean’s GSR Support $140,469 Degrees Conferred in 2010-2011 Dissertation Year Fellowships $94,056

Eugene Cota Robles Fellowship $78,982 102 Faculty Unrestricted Fellowships $73,387 Summer 2009 Ph.D. Preliminary Exam Fall 2009 Top Score Fellowships $54,337 Winter 2010 Henry Samueli Partial Fellowships $53,744 72 Spring 2010 Graduate Opportunity Fellowship $42,683 Chancellor’s Prize $30,000 Dean’s Fellowship & Campu Funds $28,500 Dr. Ursula Mandel Fellowship $15,000 Guru Krupa Foundation Fellowship $2,500 32 25 22 22 Living Spring Fellowship $2,500 18 Conference Travel Funds $1,200 10 10 8 5 6 TOTAL $1,360,924 B.S.(201) M.S.(89) Ph.D.(42)

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Circuits and Embedded Systems M.C. Frank Chang Distinguished Professor and Chairman Wintek Professor of Electrical Engineering Ph.D., National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan, R.O.C., 1979 High speed electronics including ultra high speed/ frequency devices and integrated circuits for radio, radar and imaging system applications. ■ National Academy of Engineering, 2008 ■ IEEE David Sarnoff Award, 2006 ■ Fellow, IEEE, 1996

Jason Cong Chancellor’s Professor Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1990 Synthesis of VLSI circuits and systems, programmable systems, novel computer architectures, nano-systems, and highly scalable algorithms. ■ ACM/IEEE A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award Asad A. Abidi in Electric Design Automation, 2011 Distinguished Chancellor's Professor ■ ACM Fellow, 2008 Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1981 ■ Fellow, IEEE, 2000

CMOS RF design, high speed analog integrated circuit Babak Daneshrad design, data conversion, and other techniques of analog Professor signal processing. Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1993 ■ National Academy of Engineering, 2007 ■ IEEE Donald Pederson Award, 2007 ■ Fellow, IEEE, 1996 Digital VLSI circuits, wireless communication systems, high- performance communications integrated circuits for wireless applications. Danijela Cabric Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2007 Deborah Estrin Distinguished Professor Jonathan B. Postel Professor of Networking Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985 Wireless communications system design; Cognitive radio networks; VLSI architectures of signal processing and dig- Participatory Sensing, Mobile Health, Environmental ital communication algorithms; Performance analysis and monitoring, Open systems, Privacy. experiments on embedded system platforms. ■ National Academy of Engineering, 2009 ■ Okawa Foundation Award, 2009 ■ Anita Borg Institute’s Women of Vision Award for ■ Samueli Fellow, 2008 Innovation in 2007 ■ Fellow, AAAS, 2001

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Puneet Gupta Dejan Markovic Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 2007 Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2006

Optimizations across application, architecture, circuit and Power/area-efficient digital integrated circuits for fabrication interfaces for nanoscale semiconductor communication and healthcare applications, design with technologies. CAD techniques to enable design aware post-CMOS devices, design optimization methods and manufacturing and manufacturing aware design. VLSI supporting CAD flows. physical design automation. ■ NSF CAREER Award, 2009 ■ ACM/SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award, 2010 ■ David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize, UC Berkeley, 2007 ■ SRC Inventor Recognition Award, 2010 ■ NSF CAREER Award, 2009 Sudhakar Pamarti Associate Professor Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 2003 Lei He Professor Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1999 Mixed-signal IC design: wireless/wireline communication applications, digitally assisted analog/RF circuit design, delta-sigma modulation, quantization noise theory. Modeling and simulation, programmable logic and ■ NSF CAREER Award, 2010 reconfigurable computing, and embedded and cyber- physical systems for applications such as health care, electric vehicle and smart grid. ■ Northrop Grumman Excellence in Teaching Award, 2005 Vwani Roychowdhury ■ IBM Faculty Award, 2003 Professor ■ NSF CAREER Award, 2000 Ph.D., Stanford University, 1989

Models of computation: parallel systems, quantum infor - mation processing, nanoscale and molecular electronics, William J. Kaiser statistical algorithms for large-scale information processing, Professor combinatorics and complexity and information theory, Ph.D., Wayne State University, 1984 bioinformatics, cryptography.

Development of networked embedded computing for linking the Internet to the physical world. Distributed and Behzad Razavi wearable systems for advancing the quality and interna- Professor tional accessibility of healthcare through Wireless Health. Ph.D., Stanford University, 1992 ■ UCLA Gold Shield Faculty Prize, 2009 ■ Brian P. Copenhaver Award, 2005 Analog, RF, and mixed-signal integrated circuit design, ■ Allied Signal Faculty Research Award, 1995 dual-standard RF transceivers, phase-locked systems and frequency synthesizers, A/D and D/A converters, high- speed data communication circuits. ■ UCLA Senate Teaching Award, 2007 ■ Fellow, IEEE, 2003

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Henry Samueli Alan N. Willson, Jr. Professor Distinguished Professor Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1980 Charles P. Reames Endowed Professor of Electrical Engineering Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1967 * Also at Signals and Systems Digital signal processing, communications systems Theory and application of digital signal processing engineering, and CMOS integrated circuit design for including VLSI implementations, digital filter design, applications in high-speed data transmission systems. nonlinear circuit theory. ■ American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2004 ■ IEEE Leon Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award, 2010 ■ National Academy of Engineering, 2003 ■ IEEE W. R. G. Baker Award in Signal Processing, 1985 ■ Fellow, IEEE, 2000 and in Circuits, 1994 ■ Fellow, IEEE, 1978

Majid Sarrafzadeh Professor Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, Chih-Kong Ken Yang 1987 Professor and Area Director Ph.D., Stanford University, 1998, Embedded and reconfigurable computing; VLSI CAD; design and analysis of algorithms. ■ Co-Director, UCLA Wireless Health Institute, since 2008 ■ Co-Founder, four Startups, since 2000 High-speed data and clock recovery circuits for large dig- ■ Fellow, IEEE, 1996 ital systems, low-power, high-performance functional blocks and clock distribution for high-speed digital processing, and low-power high-precision capacitive sensing interface for MEMS. ■ Fellow, IEEE, 2011 Mani B. Srivastava ■ IBM Faculty Development Fellowship, 2003-2005 Professor ■ Northrup-Grumman Outstanding Teaching Award, 2003 Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1992

Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems; Distributed and Participatory Sensing; Mobile, Wearable, and Pervasive Computing; Wireless Networks; Power & Energy-aware Systems; Energy Harvesting Technologies; Applications in mHealth, Green Buildings, and Smart Grids. ■ Fellow, IEEE, 2008 ■ Okawa Foundation Grant Award, 1998. ■ NSF CAREER Award, 1997

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Physical and Wave Electronics Warren Grundfest Professor M.D., Columbia University, 1980

Lasers for minimally invasive surgery, magnetic resonance- guided interventional procedures, laser lithotripsy, micro- endoscopy, spectroscopy, photodynamic therapy, optical technology, biologic feedback control mechanisms. ■ Fellow, SPIE, 1996 ■ Fellow, American Institute of Medical & Biologic Engineers, 1996

Diana Huffaker Professor Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1994

Directed and self-assembled nanostructure solid-state epitaxy, optoelectronic devices including solar cells and III-V/Si photonics. ■ IEEE Fellow, 2008 ■ DoD NSSEFF Fellow, 2008 ■ Humboldt Research Award, 2004 Robert Candler Assistant Professor Ph.D., Stanford University, 2006 Tatsuo Itoh Distinguished Professor Northrop Grumman Professor in Microwave MEMS and NEMS devices, micro/ nanoscale technology Electronics development, and the interface of physical microsystems Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1969 with biology. Microwave and millimeter wave electronics, guided wave structures, low power wireless electronics, integrated passive components and antennas. Chi On Chui ■ National Academy of Engineering, 2003 Assistant Professor ■ Fellow, IEEE, 1982 Ph.D., Stanford University, 2004

Bahram Jalali Nanostructure Devices and Technology for Nano - Professor and Area Director architectonics, Nanotheranostics, and Nanoelectronics. Northrop Grumman Endowed Opto-Electronic ■ CAFA Robert T. Poe Faculty Development Award, 2011 Chair in Electrical Engineering Ph.D., Columbia University, 1989 ■ IEEE Electron Devices Society Early Career Award, 2009 ■ Okawa Foundation Award, 2007 Silicon Photonics, Biophotonics, Real-time Instruments for biomedical and communication applications. ■ R.W. Wood Prize, Optical Society of America, 2008 ■ Fellow, Optical Society of America, 2004 ■ Fellow, IEEE, 2003

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Chandrashekar Joshi Warren Mori Distinguished Professor Professor Ph.D., Hull University, England, 1979 Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1987

Laser fusion, laser acceleration of particles, nonlinear op- Advanced accelerator concepts, advanced light sources, tics, high-power lasers, plasma physics. inertial confinement fusion, nonlinear optics of plasmas, ■ Fellow, Institute of Physics (U.K.), 1998 plasma physics, and massively parallel computing. ■ Fellow, IEEE, 1993 ■ Fellow, IEEE, 2007 ■ Fellow, American Physical Society, 1990 ■ Fellow, American Physical Society, 1995

Aydogan Ozcan Jack W. Judy Associate Professor Professor Ph.D., Stanford University, 2005 Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1996 Photonics and its applications to nano and biotechnology. MEMS, microsensors, micro-actuators, microsystems and ■ NSF CAREER Award 2010 micromachining; magnetism and magnetic materials; ■ NIH Director's New Innovator Award, 2009 neuro- engineering and neuro-silicon interfaces; distributed ■ IEEE Photonics Society and ONR Young Investigator sensors, actuators, and information. Awards, 2009

Kuo-Nan Liou C. Kumar Patel Distinguished Professor Distinguished Professor Ph.D. New York University, 1970 Ph.D., Stanford University, 1961

Electromagnetic Scattering by Ice Crystals and Aerosols, Condensed matter physics, especially the structure and Satellite Remote Sensing, Radiative Transfer, and Climate dynamics of “interesting systems”, broadly defined; spectro- Modeling. scopic techniques and detection methods; development of ■ COSPAR William Nordberg Medal (Application to Space high power laser systems including quantum cascade lasers. Science), 2010 ■ National Medal of Science, 1996 ■ Academia Sinica (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiwan), ■ National Academy of Engineering, 1978 2004 ■ Fellow, IEEE, 1975 ■ National Academy of Engineering, 1999

Yahya Rahmat-Samii Distinguished Professor Jia-Ming Liu Northrop Grumman Professor of Electrical Professor Engineering/Electromagnetics Ph.D., Harvard University, 1982 Ph.D., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1975 Personal communications, medical, miniaturized, fractal, Nonlinear optics, ultrafast optics, semiconductor lasers, remote sensing, satellite and radio astronomy antennas; photonic devices, optical wave propagation, nonlinear laser electromagnetic band gap and frequency selective struc- dynamics, chaotic communications, chaotic radar, tures, computational and optimization techniques, modern nanophotonic imaging, and biophotonics. antenna measurement and diagnostic techniques. ■ Fellow, IEEE, 2008 ■ IEEE Electromagnetics Award, 2011 ■ Guggenheim Fellow, 2006 ■ National Academy of Engineering, 2008 ■ Fellow, American Physical Society, 2003 ■ Fellow, IEEE, 1985

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Oscar M. Stafsudd Kang L. Wang Professor and Vice Chair Distinguished Professor Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1967 Raytheon Company Professor of Electrical Engineering Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1970 Mid-infrared lasers for applications in materials process- Nanoelectronics, spintronics and nanomagnetics; ing, dentistry, and surgery; ceramic laser media for high nanoscale science, devices and quantum systems; non- power laser systems; Raman imaging and time dependent volatile electronics and low dissipation devices; MBE; fluorescent imaging for medical applications (cancer/ optoelectronics and solar cells. wounds); infrared detectors. ■ Semiconductor Industry Association Award, 2009 ■ Lockheed Martin Excellence in Teaching Award, 2011 ■ Semiconductor Research Corporation Technical ■ Fulbright Fellowship, 1986 Excellence Award, 1995 ■ Fellow, IEEE, 1992

Dwight C. Streit Distinguished Professor Benjamin Williams Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1986 Assistant Professor Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003 Solid-state electronics, millimeter-wave devices and circuits, electronic materials, heterogeneous integration. Terahertz and mid-infrared lasers and devices; low- ■ National Research Council Lifetime Associate, 2008 dimensional semiconductor nanostructures for opto- ■ Northrop Grumman Distinguished Innovator, 2008 electronics; sub-wavelength photonics, plasmonics, and ■ National Academy of Engineering, 2001 meta-materials. ■ DARPA Young Faculty Award, 2008

King-Ning Tu Distinguished Professor Jason C. S. Woo Ph. D., Harvard 1968 Professor and Vice Chair Ph.D., Stanford University, 1987

VLSI processing and reliability, and 3D IC packaging Solid state technology, CMOS and bipolar device/circuit technology optimization, novel device design, modeling of integrated ■ Fellow: APS, 1981, TMS, 1988, MRS, 2010 circuits, VLSI fabrication. ■ Humboldt Award,1996 ■ Fellow, IEEE, 2005

Yuanxun Ethan Wang Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1999

High performance antenna array and microwave amplifier systems for wireless communication and radar; numerical modeling techniques; fusion of signal processing and circuit techniques in microwave system design.

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Signals and Systems Panagiotis Christoﬁdes Professor Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1996

Control theory for nonlinear, hybrid and distributed parameter systems, networked control, model predictive control, fault detection and fault-tolerant control, process control applications ■ IFAC Fellow, 2011 ■ IEEE Fellow, 2009 ■ Donald P. Eckman Award, 2004

Lara Dolecek Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2007

Information and probability theory, graphical models, combinatorics, statistical algorithms and computational methods with applications to high-performance complex systems for data processing, communication, and storage. Abeer Alwan ■ David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize, UC Berkeley, 2007 Professor Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992

Speech processing, acoustic properties of speech sounds with applications to speech synthesis, recognition by Suhas Diggavi machine and coding, hearing aid design, digital signal Professor processing. Ph.D., Stanford University, 1998 ■ Distinguished Lecturer, ISCA, 2010-2011 ■ Fellow, IEEE, 2008 Information theory with applications to wireless and sen- ■ Fellow, Acoustical Society of America, 2003 sor networks, network data compression and storage, network secrecy, machine learning and large scale data analysis algorithms. A. V. Balakrishnan Distinguished Professor Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1954 Mark Hansen Non-linear aeroelasticity and flutter systems research in Professor Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1994 green energy and palatal flutter. ■ Doctor Honoris Causa, West University of Timisoara, Roumania, 2004 Statistical analysis of large complex data. Statistical methods ■ Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award, 2001 for embedded sensing. Streaming data analysis. Text min- ■ NASA Public Service Medal, 1996 ing and information retrieval. Information theory and its applications to statistics.

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Alan J. Laub Izhak Rubin Distinguished Professor Distinguished Professor Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Ph.D., Princeton University, 1970 1974

Numerical linear algebra, numerical analysis, high-end scientific computation, and computer-aided control system Telecommunications and computer communications design, especially algorithms for control and filtering. systems/networks; mobile wireless, optical, multimedia IP, ■ Fellow, IEEE, 1986 ATM, satellite, and CATV networks; queueing systems, C3 systems/networks, network simulations and analysis, traffic modeling/engineering. ■ Fellow, IEEE, 1987 Jin Hyung Lee Assistant Professor Ph.D., Stanford University, 2004 Ali H. Sayed Analyze, debug, and engineer the brain circuit, its connec- Professor and former Chair tivity and function at the systems level and develop cures for Ph.D., Stanford University, 1992 diseases. Biomedical imaging technologies, such as MRI and optical imaging, signal processing algorithms, computational algorithms, optics, genetics, and molecular biology. Adaptive and statistical signal processing, adaptation and ■ NSF CAREER Award, 2011 learning, adaptive networks, bio-inspired cognition, ■ NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, 2010 distributed processing, information processing, signal ■ NIH/NIBIB R00 Award, 2010 processing for communications, system theory, large-scale structured computations. ■ Frederick E. Terman Award, 2005 ■ Kuwait Prize, 2003 Stanley Osher ■ Fellow, IEEE, 2001 Professor Ph.D., Courant Institute, New York University, 1966

Innovative numerical methods for applications ranging Mihaela van der Schaar from image science to control to electromagnetics to Chancellor's Professor computational physics and beyond. Ph.D., University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2001 ■ American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2010 ■ National Academy of Sciences, 2005 Information processing, Network Economics and Game Theory, Multi-user Communications and Networking, Multimedia Communications, Networking and Processing, Gregory J. Pottie Multimedia Systems, Distributed and large-scale stream Professor and Area Director mining systems Ph.D., McMaster University, Canada, 1988 ■ Fellow, IEEE, 2010 ■ Editor in Chief, IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, 2011-2013 Wireless communications, modeling and reliable inference ■ NSF CAREER Award 2004 in sensor networks with application to wireless health. ■ Fulbright Senior Scholar, 2009 ■ Fellow, IEEE, 2005 ■ Allied Signal Award for Outstanding Faculty Researcher in HSSEAS, 1998

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Stefano Soatto John D. Villasenor Professor Professor Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1996 Ph.D., Stanford University, 1989

Estimation theory, control theory, video, image and signal Methods, technologies, and systems used to capture processing, computer vision, robotics. information in the world around us, convert it into digital ■ Okawa Foundation, 2001 form and move it efficiently and securely from one place ■ David Marr Prize, 1999 to another. ■ Siemens Prize, 1998

Richard D. Wesel Jason L. Speyer Professor and Associate Dean Ph.D., Stanford University, 1996 Distinguished Professor Ph.D., Harvard University, 1968 Communication Theory, Channel Coding including Low- Stochastic and deterministic optimal control and estima- Density Parity-Check Codes and Turbo Codes, Information tion with application to aerospace systems; guidance, flight Theory, Network Optimization control, and flight mechanics. ■ TRW Excellence in Teaching Award, 2000 ■ National Academy of Engineering, 2005 ■ Okawa Foundation Award, 1999 ■ Life Fellow, IEEE, 2005 ■ NSF CAREER Award, 1998 ■ Fellow, AIAA, 1985

Kung Yao Paulo Tabuada Distinguished Professor Associate Professor and Vice Chair Ph.D., Princeton University, 1965 Ph.D., Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, 2002 Communication theory, signal, acoustic, and array Modeling, analysis, and control of cyber-physical systems. processing, wireless communication systems, sensor Control and systems theory. networks, chaos system theory, and VLSI and systolic ■ Donald P. Eckman Award, 2009 algorithms and architectures. ■ NSF Career Award, 2005 ■ IEEE Joint Information Theory/Communication Theory Societies Best Paper Award, 2008 ■ Life Fellow, IEEE, 1994 Lieven Vandenberghe Professor Ph.D., Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 1992

Optimization in engineering, applications in systems and control, circuit design, and signal processing. ■ HSSEAS TRW Excellence in Teaching Award, 2002 ■ NSF CAREER Award, 1998 ■ Robert Stock Award, K.U. Leuven, 1993

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Books by Faculty

Numerous textbooks on graduate and undergraduate instruction are authored by our electrical engineering faculty. These are samples of the publications.

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Post-Graduation Academic Placement Omar Nasr, 2009 mation, wireless communications, statistical signal pro- Assistant Professor, Cairo University cessing and networks. Advisor: Babak Daneshrad Member of the Center for Wireless Studies, Ping-Hsuan Hsieh, 2009 currently working in cross layer optimization Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, National for multimedia systems over wireless networks. Tsing-Hua University. Advisor: C. K. Ken Yang She joined IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Gyungsu Byun, 2011 in CMOS circuit and semiconductors, data Assistant Professor, West Virginia University converters, PLL/DLL, voltage regulators. Advisor: Frank Chang Research includes high-speed and low-power Sadaf Zahedi, 2010 interface circuits, high performance time-pre- Scholar in Residence, cision circuits. He holds 18 patents in electronic circuits. University of Colorado at Boulder Advisor: Mani Srivastava Nicholas Mastronarde, 2011 Assistant Professor, The State University of New York Yue Zhao, 2011 at Buffalo Advisor: Mihaela van der Schaar Postdoctoral, Stanford University / Interests in energy-efficient multimedia systems Princeton University Advisor: Greg Pottie and wireless networks, cross-layer design, Markov decision processes, and reinforcement learning. Augustin Hong, 2010 Postdoctoral Researcher, Pei-Ling Chi, 2011 IBM TJ Watson Research Center Assistant Professor, National Chaio Tung University, Advisor: Kang Wang Taiwan Advisor: Tatsuo Itoh Her research interests include metamaterial- Bibhudatta Sahoo, 2009 based transmission line theory/circuits and an- Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, tenna/array designs and miniaturized antennas. Kharagpur, India Advisor: Behzad Razavi Chiao-En Chen, 2008 Assistant Professor, National Chung Cheng Jaeok Park, 2011 Postdoc University, Taiwan Advisor: Kung Yao Assistant Professor, Yonsei University, Korea. His areas of expertise include array signal Advisor: Mihaela van der Schaar processing, detection and estimation theories, and MIMO Interests includes game theory, mechanism communications. design, network economics, and wireless communication.

Wei Lu Giordano Pola, 2007 Postdoc Professor in the Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua Assistant Professor, University of L'Aquila, Italy. University, Beijing, China Advisor: Paulo Tabuada Advisor: Warren Bicknell Mori Research interests include networked, embedded, distributed and hybrid systems, air traffic management Chia-Hsiang Yang, 2010 systems, quantitative finance and vehicle control. Assistant Professor, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Advisor: Dejan Markovic Sungkyu Seo, 2009 Postdoc His research interests are energy-efficient re- Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electronics and configurable architectures and digital integrated Information Engineering, Korea University circuits for communication and biomedical application. Advisor: Aydogan Ozcan Research in Bio Photonics, Nano Electronics, Wei-Ho Chung, 2009 and MEMS/NEMS. Honors include Best Assistant Professor, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Lecture Awards, Korea Univ., UCLA Chancellor’s Award for Advisor: Kung Yao Postdoctoral Research (2009). His research interests include detection, esti- 34 Annual Report Electrical Engineering 2010-2011

Administration Area Directors

M. C. Frank Chang, Department Chairman Gregory J. Pottie, Director, Signals and Systems Oscar Stafsudd, Vice-Chair, Undergraduate Affairs Bahram Jalali, Director, Physical and Wave Electronics Paulo Tabuada, Vice-Chair, Graduate Affairs Lei He, Director, Circuits and Embedded Systems Jason C. S. Woo, Vice-Chair, Industry Relations

ABET Committee Committees

M. C. Frank Chang, Department Chairman Yuanxun Ethan Wang, Director, Center for Lei He, Professor and Area Director High-Frequency Electronics William Kaiser, Professor Robert Candler, Director, Nano-Electronics Research Facility Alan Laub, Professor Babak Daneshrad, Chair, Tenure Committee Asad Madni, Alumni Advisory Board Chair Behzad Razavi, Chair, Recruitment Committee Gregory J. Pottie, Professor and Area Chair Lei He, Chair, Non-Tenure Committee Mani Srivastava, Professor Chandrashekar Joshi, Chair, Courses and Curriculum Oscar Stafsudd, Professor and Area Director Committee Lieven Vandenberghe, Professor Jason C. S. Woo, Professor and Industry Relations

Industry Affiliates

The Electrical Engineering Department is dedicated to initiating and forging partnerships with industry, in which both the school and the companies involved benefit from the exchange of technology innovations and talent. The Industrial Affiliates Program (IAP), initiated in 1981, provides a variety of services that include: ■ Nurturing the talent pipeline between UCLA and IAP members ■ Providing access to UCLA intellectual capital ■ Exploring collaborative research opportunities ■ Providing access to state-of-the-art research facilities ■ Enhancing industry visibility on campus

The department also serves as an invaluable consulting resource to our affiliate members. In turn, a company's participation in IAP provides essential program enhancement and aid to students with a portion of the membership fees being applied towards laboratory, instructional and other equipment needs. More details are available at the IAP website: http://www.ee.ucla.edu/people/industry

Our Thanks to Affiliate Members for their Support

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Editors/Coordinators Contributing Photographer M.C. Frank Chang, Professor & Chair Deeona Columbia, Director of Graduate Student Affairs Jacquelyn T. Trang, Department Administrator Design Writers Mauricio Feldman-Abe, Principal Designer Assistant Professor Chi On Chui Teresanne Cossetta Russell, Designer Professor Diana Huffaker Special Thanks to Professor Bahram Jalali Department Administrator Professor Chandrashekar Joshi Jacquelyn T. Trang, Director of Graduate Student Affairs Professor Warren Mori Deeona Columbia, , Director of Human Resources Professor William Kaiser Ilhee Choi Principal Accountant in the School of Engineering Professor Kang Wang Sylvia Abrams, Professor Chih-Kong Ken Yang Assistant Professor Lara Dolecek Assistant Professor Puneet Gupta Professor Mani B. Srivastava Professor Mihaela van der Schaar Professor Kung Yao Professor Izhak Rubin Professor Behzad Razavi Dr. Asad Madni Janet Lin, Coordinator, Industry Relations